In the Garden Patch

Growing Children Growing Gardens

HES/Healdsburg Charter School gardens full of life.

  “If children are to care for the earth, then working and playing with the very stuff of existence is a priority.” David Hawkins Getting kids’ hands dirty is just one of the important tasks of the teacher-gardeners at the Healdsburg Elementary School/Healdsburg Charter School. The other jobs include teaching children, from kindergarten on, where their food comes from, the life cycles of insects and chickens, to identify plants, seeds and bugs, to graze in the garden and much more. Today, the 22 students in Vikki DuRee’s kindergarten class spread throughout the garden, some petting chickens, some picking snails off the vegetable plants to toss into the hen pen, some watching as Alison Garcia carryied a newly-hatched tomato hornworm moth. …

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Photo Gallery: Congrats to the Class of 2012!

Enjoy this community photo gallery of Healdsburg's Class of 2012

    It's time to shine for the class of 2012! Healdsburg Patch will feature the photos of Healdsburg students who are graduating from colleges, high schools, elementary schools and kindergartens. This is a COMMUNITY photo gallery of Healdsburg graduates. This means that we need you, dear reader, to upload the photos of your graduates to feature in this photo gallery to honor the graduates and recognize their long years of homework, studying and exams.  Congratulations to the Class of 2012.  Healdsburg Patch and the community of Healdsburg honor you. If you don't know how to upload the photos here is what you must do:

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Healdsburg Police Warn of Traffic, Alcohol 'Challenges' at Future Farmers Parade

Parade is Thursday, May 24.

  Healdsburg Police issued an alert Tuesday to what they called "challenges associated with the annual Healdsburg Future Farmers Country Fair and Parade."  "This community celebration occurs over the Memorial Day weekend," said Healdsburg Police Lt. Kevin Young in a statement. "Festivities start with a parade through the downtown area on Thursday May 24 starting at 6 p.m. "The associated street closures begin at 5:30 p.m.," he added.  "Vehicle access into the downtown area will be restricted for a minimum of two hours." Young encouraged drivers to select alternate routes to avoid the parade activity. After the parade, the Healdsburg Future Farmers Country Fair continues through Sunday at Recreation Park. This year's theme is "Cowboy Boots …

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Occupy Groups Prepare to Protest Former Citi CEO at "Day of Shame"

Sonoma State University is awarding Sanford and Joan Weill an honorary degree for their $12 million donation to the school. But critics say Weill, the former CEO of Citigroup, is one of the "architects" of the financial crisis and is not an appropriate ch

Occupy groups, including Occupy Petaluma, are planning a “Day of Shame” at Sonoma State University's graduation Saturday to criticize the school for awarding an honorary doctorate for the former CEO of Citigroup who they say helped cause the economic crisis. An estimated 2,300 Sonoma State University students will graduate at
Saturday's 50th anniversary commencement ceremonies in Rohnert Park. Occupy groups are targeting former Citigroup CEO Sanford Weill who donated $12 million to the school’s new Green Music Center. While at Citigroup, Weill successfully lobbied to repeal the Glass Steagall Act, allowing banks to engage in risky investments. The reversal of the Depression-era ban on commercial banks investing depositors’ money opened the…

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LongTimeLocal

1:28 am on Wednesday, May 16, 2012

So some ideas. Yes, much higher taxes on the ultra rich (but be careful as moving money abroad is easy), stop the job losses abroad - does anyone really think China or wherever could afford the cheap labor if they had to use our worker safety standards and benefits), yes on health care (not Obama's - that's the best legislation the insurance companies could have written themselves), flatten the …   more ›

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HUSD Moves Ahead With Staff Cuts, Bond Measure

School district has $35 million bond extension question on June 5 ballot.

  Healdsburg Unified School District will confirm cuts of the equivalent of 5.8 full-time teaching positions for the 2012-13 school year at a special meeting Wednesday. The meeting is set for 5 p.m. at the HUSD offices, 1028 Prince St. Superintendent Jeff Harding said the layoffs, tentatively approved earlier this year, were due to a shrinking student population at Healdsburg High School. "The senior class we're losing to graduation this year is a large class," Harding said. HUSD board members also are scheduled Wednesday to approve an underwriter for the proposed school bond measure on the June 5 ballot. If approved by voters, the measure would extend the current school bond debt term and generate $35 million for school facilities …

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Jim Vogt, Former Healdsburg High Teacher, Dies at 100

He was early president of Healdsburg Active 20-30 Club.

  Jim Vogt, a longtime Healdsburg High School teacher and former president of the Healdsburg Active 20-30 Club, died Friday at the age of 100. "He passed away peacefully in his home on Friday morning, May 4, at 8 a.m.," said his daughter Colleen Estill of Santa Rosa. "He will be greatly missed." In November, Estill and her siblings organized a festive 100th birthday party for her father at the Healdsburg Golf Club at Tayman Park. At the birthday party, relatives from all over the country poured in to celebrate Vogt's life and view clippings and photos from 10 decades of living assembled by Estill's brother and Vogt's son Paul Vogt of Scottsdale. Vogt was a major golf enthusiast and was active in at the Healdsburg club when he and his late …

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Keri Brenner

3:43 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012

@Paul Vogt: You're very welcome. Glad I got to meet him before he died and to attend the wonderful 100th birthday party. He was quite a guy. My sympathies to you and your family.   more ›

Healdsburg One of Five Local Districts Calling on Voters to Pay More for Schools

Seeking approval of $35 million bond that would be repaid through higher property taxes

Soroptimist Club Recognizes 'Most Improved' Students From Area Schools

Eight area students awarded certificates by Soroptimist Club.

  Students, parents, educators and members of Soroptimist International of Healdsburg gathered on Wednesday to honor ‘most improved’ students from area schools. After a lunch of Mountain Mike’s pizza, salad and cookies, Soroptimist president Janice Torres awarded certificates to eight schools. The focus was on middle school students, though that meant different grades for different schools. The eight students represented fifth, sixth and eighth grade students. “We used to recognize high achievement,” said Soroptimist member Liz Thompson, “but the same students got all the recognition every time. “Someone suggested ‘why don’t we change to most improved because those students are often overlooked,’” she continued. “We started this form of …

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